 
Jerome “Jack” Israel joined the FBI’s
Information and Technology Branch as the Chief Technology
Officer (CTO) in August 2004. Mr. Israel is responsible
for technology exploration and strengthening engineering
for the FBI’s information and technology (IT)
projects.
As the CTO, he has explored many software, hardware,
and engineering solutions to find technology and services
that will improve the law enforcement applications
on Blackberrys™; developed a federated search
prototype for information sharing across law enforcement
and intelligence agencies; conducted studies into service
oriented architecture; and performed numerous integrations
of commercial products to determine their ease of use
and mission effectiveness.
Mr. Israel also has increased the number of system
and software engineers who work with program managers
and customers to jointly improve the delivery of software
applications in the FBI. He has focused on building
architectural foundations by implementing Java 2 Enterprise
Edition-.NET to ease application deployment in a secure
environment to eliminate stovepipes and provide the
user “one-stop” shopping. These emerging
architectures are beginning to reap benefits in the
areas of case, crisis, and threat management, Web 2.0,
and intelligence analysis.
Prior to coming to the FBI, Mr. Israel was employed
for 25 years at the National Security Agency where
he served as a linguist and intelligence analyst. As
Technical Director for the Analysis and Production
Directorate, Mr. Israel participated in the planning
and building of information architectures that managed
large varieties and volumes of data. He was an early
pioneer in information operations and trained many
analysts in this area.
Mr. Israel graduated from Indiana University in 1978
with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures and
an Area Studies Certificate from the Russian and East
European Institute. In 1998, he graduated with a Master
of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint
Military Intelligence College in Washington, D.C. His
thesis focused primarily on Internet security. In 2003,
Mr. Israel received the Presidential Rank Award for
Meritorious Senior Career Employee.
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